![]() Baldwin has taken a very special theme and treated it with great artistry and restraint." - Saturday Review "Exciting.a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction." - The Atlantic "Violent, excruciating beauty. immediate emotional impact." - The Washington Post "Mr. Baldwin has taken a very special theme and treated it with great artistry and restraint." -Saturday Review "Exciting.a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction." -The Atlantic "Violent, excruciating beauty." -San Francisco Chronicle, "If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." -Michael Ondaatje "A young American involved with both a woman and a man.Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity." - The New York Times "Absorbing. In Paris he meets Hella Lincoln, has an affair with her, and proposes marriage. After a single homosexual experience in adolescence, David represses the impulses he finds unacceptable. immediate emotional impact." -The Washington Post "Mr. Giovanni’s Room, novel by James Baldwin, published in 1956, about a young expatriate American’s inability to come to terms with his sexuality. The novel becomes a kind of anti-narrative of homosexuality by making the complex struggle of homosexual desire the extended, self-conscious heart of the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() "If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one." -Michael Ondaatje "A young American involved with both a woman and a man.Baldwin writes of these matters with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity." -The New York Times "Absorbing. Baldwin would harness these ideas in Giovanni’s Room. ![]()
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